Impossible to interact with widget near screen edge when maximized

Bug #901848 reported by Owais Lone
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overlay-scrollbar
Triaged
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Bug Description

It's really annoying how overlay scrollbars make it impossible to use widgets near the screen edge when an app is maximized.

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Owais Lone (loneowais) wrote :
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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

You can wait with the mouse stop over it, and wait 2 seconds to vanish, but then the bug is that it reappears once you move the mouse again

Changed in ayatana-scrollbar:
status: New → Triaged
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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

Or yes, you can just wait 4 stars for your rhythmbox songs. (sorry, couldn't resist :D)

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Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote :

s/wait/rate/

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Owais Lone (loneowais) wrote :

Yeah! that's a nice solution :D

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Jakob Unterwurzacher (jakobunt) wrote :

It's the same for nautilus on the bottom edge (screenshot attached). You can't click the last file.

Bug 808516 has the same root cause: The scroll bars make application content inaccessible when the window is maximized.

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Jakob Unterwurzacher (jakobunt) wrote :

Three ideas for solving the issue:
1) When the scrollbar has faded out, do not reappear on mouse move or click
2) Provide a close button to the scroll bar
3) Fall back to normal scroll bars for maximized windows (makes most sense so me)

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Mayank (mayankiit04-a) wrote :

Or allow a right click on scroll bar to fade it till mouse pointer again moves

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